Peter Habernoll

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Peter Habernoll (* 1924 ; † September 20, 1944 in Berlin-Spandau ) was a German soldier and anti-fascist .

Life

At the age of seventeen he was drafted into the Wehrmacht of National Socialist Germany . After a conversation with comrades at the end of 1943, in which he denounced the atrocities of some of his comrades in the Second World War and protested against them, he was arrested on March 17, 1944 for a denunciation . He was sentenced to death and shot on September 20, 1944 in Spandau. Habernoll was 20 years old.

His farewell letter to his mother appeared in various anthologies since 1951 and has also been translated into other languages. A record was also made.

Further letters from Habernoll, as well as a letter from the clergyman, who was present at his shooting, to Habernoll's mother, were printed in Dying We Live: The Final Messages and Records of the German Resistance (1956).

A detailed portrait of Habernoll can be read in Stephan Hermlin's book The First Row .

proof

  1. ↑ Stephan Hermlin: The first row , 1951.
  2. ^ Dying we live: the final messages and records of the resistance. Published by Helmut Gollwitzer, Pantheon, New York 1956 ( text)
  3. ↑ In brief . In: The time . No. 28/1988 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Helmut Gollwitzer (Ed.): You haunted me by night: Farewell letters and notes of the resistance 1933-1945. C. Kaiser, Munich 1951, most recently Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 978-3-579-01124-0 .
  5. ↑ In the face of death, Christophorus.
  6. ↑ The first row. Portraits. New life publishing house, Berlin 1951, later: Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund 1975.
personal data
SURNAME Habernoll, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier and anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Spandau